Daily Globe (Newspaper) - January 28, 2003, Ironwood, Michigan ON SECOND THOUGHT Lions fire Mornhinweg less than a month after saying he would get third season Pg 9 JANUARY 28 DAILY G GOOD DAY Mary Cramer Iron Belt Happy 100th birthday to my and teacher from years ago INSIDE WAR PROTEST On the eve of President Bush's State of the Union address protesters gather Pg 2 DOMINO EFFECT Mirro in Manitowoc Wis may close a victim of the loss of Kmart orders Pg 7 CAMPUS CROWS The University of Michigan tries to scare off huge flocks of crows Pg 3 WEATHER INDEX Last 24 hours Last year this date Record 1906 Low -35 1915 Snow Last 24 hours 1.8 On the Last year at this This Last details Page 2 INDEX Business 7 Classifieds Comics 14 Community 5 Education 6 Obituaries 8 Opinion 4 Wakefield sewer rates to hold for five years By MARGARET LEVRA Globe Slaff Writer WAKEFIELD It's good news for Wakefield residents Sewer rates will not increase for at least five years It appears a rate increase will not be required this year According to my lations it may be a number of years before the city uses its positive balance and needs to raise its city manager Tucker moves to 101.1 Si After three decades a veteran broadcaster switches frequencies but she still reports from home in Ontonagon ONTONAGON Mich AP It's a homespun show broadcast from home The first time I heard Jan on the air she was changing said Joe ish a retired Michigan Tech University professor and longtime listener of Jan Tucker It was pretty amusing When Tucker decided last month to move her radio show to another station she didn't have to pack a thing A little rewiring and it was back to Tucker continued to inform the ty from a desk in her front foyer The Jan Tucker Show From agon County has been a Copper Country staple for 32 years Generations have been raised on recipes given out on her show News was gathered and reported by er about the community she has lived in for more than 40 years After three decades and thousands of small crises averted Tucker left the radio station she helped found and took her show further down the dial It was one of the hardest decisions of her life Many of Tucker's longtime listeners couldn't tune into local news and homemaking tips they'd come to count on because of programming changes at Tucker's old station WMPL in Hancock John Siira told the city council Monday All indications are we will have enough money to pay our bills The current Sewer System Capital Improvement rate is per month plus per gallons The ongoing sanitary sewer project came about after the Michigan ment of Environmental Quality issued a consent order against the city It said the city was in violation of its discharge mits Those permits allow the city to dis- charge from its lagoon only twice each year once in the spring and again in the fall The city was discharging more from its lagoon because of the clean water in the system Siira said According to the city must col- lect enough money each year to cover its costs It was required to collect in 2002 Although was the required amount the city had a positive balance which was more than enough to cover the required amounts Siira said Because of the investment income and penalties received the city actually col- See WAKEFIELD Page 2 Associated Jan Tucker looks at a press release at her desk in her Ontonagon home where she broadcasts The Jan Tucker Show from Monday through Friday Recently Tucker's show switched to 101.1 FM of Ontonagon Her show had been transmitted on Hancock WMPL for the past 32 years The show formerly broadcast on the FM dial at 93.5 moved to the sister station at 920 on the AM dial in August 2001 The move altered the broadcast range and The Jan Tucker Show From Ontonagon County could no longer be heard in most of Ontonagon County I'd go to the library or the grocery store and people kept asking why they couldn't get the show Tucker said I thought it would die down but it didn't The move to 101.1 FM in Ontonagon was an act of loyalty to the community she lives in Tucker said One woman told me she was a shut-in and I was her only connection to the outside Tucker said When I came back on the air she called me and she was crying Mitch Lake who co-hosted the show for 20 years said Page 2 Voters to rule on Act 78 By JASON JUNO Globe Staff Writer IRONWOOD The Ironwood City Commission agreed day to let voters decide whether Act 78 should remain in force The has come under fire recently as the city tries to find a director to replace the retired Joseph Gayer Act 78 which the city adopted decades ago forces the city com- mission to look inside the public safety department for the motion ruling out an outside appointee The act also prolongs the process regardless of how immediate the need And as the search continues the costs of administering tests and conducting inter- views will also tally up Commissioner Jim Lorenson said he thought it was time to ask the people if Act 78 should be repealed For some time I've asked if Act 78 serves any purpose for the city of Lorenson said His answer was no City Manager Keith Johnson contacted some Upper Peninsu- la cities to see who still had Act 78 on the books Negaunee got rid of it by way of a union contract 20 years ago Kingsford is ing a special election in March he said Iron Mountain still has the act But Houghton Munising the Gogebic County Sheriffs Department Hancock and Ishpeming do not An election date will be set at the next meeting State of the Union Bush juggles war message plans WASHINGTON AP dent Bush has prepared a State of the Union speech ing a multitude of domestic tax cuts to spur the omy dollars for church groups and more pre- scription drug coverage for the elderly Overshadowing it all was this imperative Prepare the nation for possible war The president is trying to suade Americans that Saddam Hussein poses a threat to the United States when most cans say Bush has not explained clearly what is at stake White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said that from the president's point of view it remains a very grave threat that Saddam will strike soon at American inter- ests Yet Bush plans neither a dec- of war nor an ment on what Iraq's last-ditch deadline is for complying with demands to disarm Bush intended to reiterate his assertion that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and is linked to Osama bin Laden's network New evidence of those charges will be revealed next week by Secretary of State Colin Powell perhaps at the United Nations officials said Bush himself has made charges in the past about relationships between Iraq and but the administration has provided scant evidence Most of Bush's speech will focus on domestic concerns said Pushing a new plank in his Bush is asking Congress to direct drug treatment dollars to religious organizations His plan would give addicts treatment vouchers that would allow them to seek help at any center including those with religious approaches two senior White House officials said The plan is sure to be because many religious drug treatment programs do not employ medical approaches and See Page 2 Wakefield finds link to Ice Age Diane Globe Alice Cormier presents VMS and DVD versions of Ice Age to Wakefield School principal Bob Mercure while Manny the Mammoth hero of the animated film looks over their ders Cormier's son Keith worked on the movie and was responsible for developing the look and grooming of the computer-generated fur on Manny By DIANE MONTZ Globe Staff Writer WAKEFIELD When Alice Cormier watched the DVD version of Ice Age in December she saw more than a charming animated film that her son Keith had helped create With a DVD you get a lot more than a movie Ice Age includes modelers writers and animators from the film talking about how they created their characters in the story of an unlikely animal alliance formed to reunite a human baby with his herd Cormier a retired English and art teacher thought the look at film might inspire Wakefield students in careers and arts classes Last week Cormier also a member of the Wakefield Board of Education gave the school both VHS and DVD versions of Ice as well as a new DVD player The school had no DVD player before that Wakefield students need to be exposed to all the different things and careers they could Cormier said to know what else there is they could aim to Keith a 1985 Wakefield grad worked on Ice Age for two years at Blue Sky dios in White Plains Keith is a director at Blue Sky and has a elor of fine arts degree in media arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design At home in Wakefield for the holidays See ICE Page 2 IRONWOOD Ml FEBRUARY SESSION Methods Pilules it on cere stability strength flexibility and resistance jilt M- strength proper technique to throw punches jabs CARDIO CLASSES Jan 27 Feb 4 Starts Feb I For more i i 906
